Improvement in broom-head



waited gmt-ra JOHN M.ALLIsoN, for SALINA, PENNs'YLvAlsI-In.`

. Latas Patent No. 93,033, dated .my 27, 1869.

rMPRovEm-:NT IN BRooM-HEAD.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part ofthe same.

To all whom it may concern:

v Be it known that I, JOHN M. ALLIsoN, of Salina,

Vin the county of' Venango', and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and valuable Improvement in Broom-Irons; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the construction and operation of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings making a part of this specification, and to the letters and figures of ret'- erenoe marked thereon.

Figure 1 of the drawings is a plan Vview of my iuvention.

Figures 2, 3, 4, and 5, are details. My invention relates to the manufacture of brooms;

- and It consists mainly ina novel arrangement of devices intended to serve as eiiieien-t means for holding the broom-corn heads firmly and in the proper shape for brooms, without ,the use oftwine.

The letter A of the drawings represents a broomhandle, to which is attached the shank B, with a thread out on its inner side, in themanner shown.

The letter c represents aringthat enciroles the lower end of shank B to give it additional strength.

rIhe letter E represents a hinged clamp, with a 'thread cut on the end of each section, as shown,

former, and screw it-frmly into the thread on the inner side of clamp B.

By the above-named process .the lcorn-heads are made to assume the shape of the former, and the broom is completed. r

What I claim as my invention,.and desire to secure The broom-forming apparatus herein described, hav-r ing shank B, former D, and clamp E, constructed and arranged to operate substantially as specified.`

In testimony that I claim the above, I have hereunto subscribed my name, in the presence of two witnesses.

J. M. ALLISOlfI.

Witnesses:

WM. M. BARR, J. W. SMULL'IN. 

